NESAC has developed a forest fire incident reporting App for Forest and Environment Department, Meghalaya. The App has been launched by Meghalaya Forest and Environment Minister, Shri James P K Sangma on 24th February 2022 at Shillong. The purpose of the App development is to support the forest field officials engaged in forest fire mitigation activities in the state. The App has the provision of collection of forest fire related information in three local languages widely spoken in the State of Meghalaya i.e. in Garo, Khasi and Jaintia. During the launching of the App Dr. S P Aggarwal, Director, NESAC informed the role and functions of the fire App developed by NESAC for the benefit of forest fire fighting authorities in the State. The program was attended by Shri B K Lyngwa, PCCF & HoFF, Forest & Environment Department, Meghalaya, Shri Razi, Commisioner & Secretary, Govt. of Meghalaya & Chairman, Meghalaya Biodiversity Board and several other important dignitaries from Govt. of Meghalaya.
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